sack is cut up into quarter sections, washed, hemmed and used for
handkerchiefs. No better handkerchief can be invented. They are stout,
stiff and durable! They will bear all manner of nasal assaults! There
is no danger of blowing them into atoms, and the officials are not
afraid to give them out to convicts sent there charged with the use of
dynamite! One of them has been known to last a prisoner for five
years.

After I had donned my suit and taken possession of my handkerchief, I
was ordered to fold my arms. Prisoners marching in ranks, or going to
and fro about the prison enclosure, are required to have their arms in
this position. The object is to prevent them from passing articles. I
was marched to the building known as the south wing of the cell house.
In this building, which is two hundred and fifty feet long, there are
cells for the accommodation of five hundred convicts. The prisoners
who occupy this wing work in the shops located above ground, and
within the prison enclosure.

The officer in charge conducted me to cell number one. Click went the
lock. The door was pulled open, and in his usual style, he said, "Get
in." I stepped in. Slam went the door. Click went the lock, and I was
in a felon's cell! These rooms are about four feet wide, seven feet
long, and seven feet high. In many of the cells two men are confined.
These rooms are entirely too small for the accommodation of two
prisoners. A new cell house is being built, which, when completed,
will afford sufficient additional room so that each prisoner can have
a cell. In these small rooms there are two bunks or beds when two
convicts occupy the same cell. The bed-rack is made of iron or wood
slats, and the bed-tick is filled with corn-husks; the pillow is also
filled with the latter material, and when packed down becomes as hard